Victor Hugo quotes - page 6

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine. (Victor Hugo)
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. View quote
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection. View quote
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I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill. View quote
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. View quote
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World. View quote
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" View quote
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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal. View quote
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. View quote
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God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman. View quote
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking. (Victor Hugo)
Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe! View quote
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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. View quote
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As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere. View quote
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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud. View quote
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It is nothing to die it is dreadful not to live. View quote
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He does not weep who does not see. View quote
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England has two books the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare but the Bible made England. View quote
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution. View quote
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The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities. View quote
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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible... what we must always foresee is the unforeseen. (Victor Hugo)
God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers. View quote
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. View quote
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me. View quote
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To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel. View quote
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